There is a unique level of irony where white South Africans that have already come (many on H-2A visas) are specifically admitted to do agricultural jobs in Mississippi that used to be done by enslaved Black people and sharecroppers bsky.app/profile/alex...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

They're going to go home as soon as they realize that life is harder here for them

He's standing up, right?

Labor force growth could be near-zero starting this year…unprecedented in recent US history…making negative job growth almost as likely as positive job growth + any growth in potential GDP will need to come entirely from productivity growth…a significant shift www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...

“May be”?!

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.

there are so many things i hate about the fascist project, but administration officials making up increasingly absurd lies about the amazing mind of Donald Trump is way up there

Dumb McNamara: www.military.com/daily-news/i....

The top chaplain being fired should not be overlooked. He is going to put somebody with his "theology" in the spot and would not be surprised to see a purge of mainline theology clergy from the military.

👀 oh Bari

D’s should stall these nominations (especially LaNeve) to the midterms

I mean he *wants* it to be known as Trump Doctrine so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

given his predilection for putting his name on things, I see no reason not to call this the Trump War in the Middle East

6. Transgender and cisgender people alike have been caught up in the anti-trans panic—people have been harassed and filmed in the bathroom, accosted by police or security guards, physically assaulted, and arrested after using the restroom, even in states with no such “bathroom ban” on the books.

5. “I commend her for calling attention to state-sanctioned discrimination and for her bravery in challenging those who support such discrimination to put their votes into action,” Rep. Abi Boatman of Kansas’ 86th district in Wichita, told Erin in the Morning.

4. Boucher’s modest protest transpired as the state crackdowns on trans people escalated: banning them from using bathrooms in public buildings that don’t match their sex assigned at birth, instituting a “bounty” to incentivize snitching on trans people who use the “wrong” restroom.

3. “I think this would be extremely dangerous for a Kansan to do, but ... I’m more than happy to put myself at that risk if it means that somebody else doesn’t have to, because eventually someone would try this,” Boucher told the Topeka Capital-Journal.

2. The police showed her the way. Governor Laura Kelly, who Boucher encountered along the way, accepted a gracious thanks from Boucher. Kelly had tried to veto the bathroom ban bill that Boucher was now defying, but she was overridden by a heavily conservative state legislature.

1. Throughout history, leaders have committed acts of civil disobedience to challenge unjust laws. Add Samantha Boucher to that list. Boucher walked into the Kansas Statehouse bathroom in front of police, deliberately violating one of the most extreme anti-trans law in the country.

It’s gutting that someone has to do this, but it’s great that someone did.

The sensors used in neurodevelopmental research cost a fortune. That expense limits research into things like genetic disorders. New sensors work just as well, but are WAY cheaper. The goal? Crank up research in this area. Very cool. 🧪🧠 news.ncsu.edu/2026/04/sens...

And the guy who admitted on tv that the whole administration is worried about going to jail

Volkswagen, an actual car company, had revenue of £321bn last year and a market cap of around £80bn.

I am glad that Pete Hegseth got his job on the basis of experience and merit.

Noem gave the Coast Guard Commandant THREE HOURS to clear out. Do we really not have an answer to this question yet?

When so many things are terrible all at once and your congressional reps are actually doing amazing things in office, it can be hard to figure out what to call them about. Today I mixed it up with three different messages 🧵

Priorities 🤦🏻‍♂️

Meeting in the conference room at 10am ET. Pam brought donuts and coffee. First come, first serve. youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ

Pope Leo XIV performed the ritual of washing of the feet for the first time on Holy Thursday, marking a return to tradition for the rite which his predecessor Francis used to perform for the homeless, prisoners and other marginalized people. u.afp.com/SbBD

"With the LNG drought pushing up electricity prices and photovoltaics providing a cheaper, easier alternative, a boom in rooftop solar is far more likely than a return to coal. Don’t look under the ground for the solution to the LNG crisis. The answer is in the skies." agreed!

Fire the attorney general, immediately start posting war crimes … logical

Raskin: "It doesn't give me a lot of comfort that Todd Blanche is now the acting AG. This is the guy who transferred Ghislaine Maxwell from the higher security prison to the low security prison camp in Texas."

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

Last April, the president unleashed a tidal wave of tariffs on ‘liberation day’. Analysts say the policy has failed, even by the Trump administration’s own terms

Does this mean Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem have to move out of their apartments on the Army base?

I'm not salty or anything, and I don't live in America anymore - but I absolutely checked a couple major cybersecurity events with rotating venues because surely by now in 2026, they must have moved to places safe for women and trans attendees, surely, surely, surely, nah of course not

In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.

I feel like the nutcase who makes long, rambling videos calling Ms. Rachel evil probably shouldn't be invited on cable news, tbh

Woke up from a dream (Nightmare?) this morning. The toy that was all the rage with the kids was “my little Tony” dolls. I had to exorcise this thought, I'm so sorry.

make incompetence shameful again

NEW: Since August, one in four ICE arrests were of people who weren’t targeted, and three quarters of targeted arrests involved people with no criminal convictions or pending charges, data analyzed by THE CITY showed. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/02/i...

Almost 120,000 bike lane obstructions have been reported to our mobile app. 4,500 obstructions were reported last month alone! …thread

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

Esquire Singapore posted a cover story interview that ***did not interview the subject*** ***but instead*** ***generated the entire interview using AI*** jfc wtaf gtfo

They should also cancel every investigation the Trump DOJ started and say that it is biased. Take the temporary hit and move on

The real lesson is don't comply in advance. Biden turns over White House logs, NYT invents he has Parkinson's. Hillary gets hacked and it turns into a daily story. yet Patel also had his emails hacked, and not a salacious detail yet.

Ya, I think it's unfortunate but the next Dem administration should not do any of the transparency stuff that Obama and Biden did. The benefit to the public is not worth the political headache caused by the media weaponizing the info in bad faith, esp when the rules aren't applied to the GOP

The lesson is not anything to do with records keeping compliance or whatever, the lesson is that the actual story the news media wanted to run was "[NEGATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON]" and they tested out a bunch of stuff to fit into that hole before they settled on EMAILS